Re: Sharyn's Surgery Update

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i was thinking of you yesterday... and thought you were on vacation. Glad to hear everything went well. (and that you love your new looks) Suzi"Sharyn E. Cerniglia" <sharyncern@...> wrote: Hi all, CarolG emailed me this morning and reminded me that I hadn’t posted an update since my surgery, which was last Wednesday, a week ago yesterday. I’m doing awesome! I came through the surgery just fine,

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I should as well. Even parttime.

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Glad everything went well. I should look

to work in a plastic surgery clinic they make so much money hehe.

Janet

From: health [mailto:health ] On Behalf Of Sharyn E. Cerniglia

Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008

8:16 AM

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Subject:

Sharyn's Surgery Update

Hi all,

CarolG

emailed me this morning and reminded me that I hadn’t posted an update

since my surgery, which was last Wednesday, a week ago yesterday.

I’m

doing awesome! I came through the surgery just fine, although looked like

I’d been beaten with a baseball bat. Or like those old Roadrunner

cartoons, when he runs face first into the side of a cliff. I looked

pretty bad for a couple of days.

I took a

dose each of Arnica 200C for bruising/trauma/anesthesia and Phosphorus

200C for bleeding both before and after the surgery, then since have put Arnica

gel on the facial bruising – wherever there isn’t an incision

(mostly under the eyes…and it disappeared about 90% of the bruising

overnight) – and have taken several doses of Arnica 30C as I’ve

thought about it, probably 5-6 all together since last Saturday.

I went in

for my first post-surgical visit to the surgeon on Friday morning, and he

removed both the turban around my head (meant to keep my forehead on until the

stitches took??<G>…I have stitches in a horseshoe from one ear to

the other, at the hairline) and the dressings from my breasts. Oh, they

sent me home from OR with a “torso girdle” which covered the breast

dressings and held everything in place. He told me I could remove it

after that visit and wear a non-underwire seamless bra of my choice…but I

need to wear a bra day and night for the first month. And I could finally

shower! I’ll never take being clean for granted again! I took

a good long shower on Saturday morning, shaved my underarms and legs (the only

bad thing about living in south Florida is I have to shave every

day or I feel like a scrunge), washed my hair – carefully! – and

just generally rejoiced in being clean again. Got to see my new boobs for

the first time and lovedlovedlovedlovedloved them!

On Sunday I

was feeling (and looking) well enough to go to our favorite football bar to

watch the first quarter of the Giants/Bucs game…I did wear a big floppy

straw hat and glasses to hide all the stitches so as not to gross out the rest

of the bar patrons. Everyone was excited – and surprised – to

see me…but I wasn’t about to start my week off without one of

’s famous Bloody s for breakfast!<G>

Tuesday I

went back to the surgeon and got my eyelid stitches out. Ouchie!

But I thanked him profusely for the new boobs…and he said if I loved them

now, just wait a couple of months, because they will only improve with

time. Geez, how many people can say that?<VBG> So I’m

very excited about that.

I realized

yesterday morning that my short pixie-ish hairdo now is the exact same one I

had in my senior picture when I graduated from high school almost FORTY years

ago! And I think I look better now than I did then…

My forehead

still feels weird…there’s a numb spot at the outside of my right

eyebrow…and the whole forehead feels like it’s not quite

attached. Considering they peeled it down like a banana skin before

lifting it up and stretching it back into place, then cutting off the excess

and stitching it up, I’m not surprised. It’s already improved

immensely since the surgery, so I’m confident total feeling will come

back in a short time. Not so with the top of my head…feels like I

have a baseball cap on under my hair. I was warned about that ahead of

time; the two main nerves which feed the top of the skull have been cut and

will not regenerate (so *he* says!

we'll just see about that!<G>), but the surrounding nerves will expand

their “coverage territory” and the dead zone should decrease to the

size of a half dollar within a couple of years. My aim is that it

won’t take that long!

So…I’m

doing very well! Awesome, as I said above…my horseshoe stitches

come out next Tuesday, and probably my breast stitches also. Some of the

breast stitches are dissolvable (the ones in the layers inside), but the outer

ones have to be removed. He likes to have control over when to remove

them, so that they disappear at the exact right time for the best healing of

the scars.

I’m

using a product called Celltrex with CoQ10 (http://www.nuskin.com/intercom/productDetail.do?prodId=01131809)

which I used to sell when I was a NuSkin distributor. We were allowed to

say back then that it reduced scarring…that isn’t in the product

literature anymore (gotta love the FDA!), but I’m pretty sure it still

works the way it did back then, probably better because it didn’t have

CoQ10 in it then. I’m putting it on my eyelid scars now, and will

start using it on the hairline ones and the breast ones as soon as the stitches

are out and the inflammation from their removal disappears. (It *hurts* to get stitches out!)

I’m

sure that being over-the-top healthy to begin with has had a lot to do with my

quick bounce back. And I have to say…anyone who is contemplating

having an eyelid lift, it’s the best thing ever…well, almost the

best. The best is a breast lift!<BG>

The only

downside to this is that this little sun bunny isn’t allowed to sunbathe

for awhile. He reiterated that when I was getting my eyelid stitches out

on Tuesday. (Guess he could tell from the fact that my whole body is

brown, with no tan lines, huh?) I’m contemplating cheating on that

(like I cheated with my contacts…put them back in the morning before I

got my eyelid stitches out…just couldn’t stand wearing glasses

anymore)…we’ll see…but the weather is so beautiful it’s

difficult to stay out of the sun!

Oh, and when

I went in on Tuesday to have the eyelid stitches removed, while I was in the

waiting room there was a pod of dolphins (the Flipper ones, not the mahi-mahi

ones) feeding in the river right outside the window! I love living

here! Where else would you get surprise dolphins?!?!?

Sharyn

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So we are going to see you at the disco next week?

Glad all went well. I know how messed up things can get at hospitals!

Gayla Always Enough RanchAcampo, Californiahttp://bouncinghoofs.com/alwaysenough.htmlaeranch@...

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Luckily, I didn’t have to go into

the hospital for this. It was outpatient surgery in an OR in the surgeon’s

office. I don’t think I would have done it if I’d had to go into a

hospital.

Sharyn

From: health

[mailto:health ] On Behalf Of Gayla

So we are going to see

you at the disco next week?

Glad all went well. I

know how messed up things can get at hospitals!